Monday, March 12, 2012

We're blessed with an extra day in 2012 to work on Leonard Peltier'sbehalf and bring him home.

Have you called the White House today? Call 202-456-1111. If thelines are busy, try the White House switchboard at 202-456-1414. Askfor the Comment Line. You may be placed on hold until the nextavailable staffer can take your call.

People's Choice Award

The Global Exchange Human Rights Awards strive to recognize theindividuals and groups making a lasting difference, including thoseheroes whose efforts may have previously gone unrecognized. LeonardPeltier has been nominated for this year's People's Choice Award.

Register and vote now:

Global Exchange is an international human rights organizationdedicated to promoting social, economic and environmentaljustice since 1988. Find out more about Global Exchange at

T-Shirt Special

Our traditional AIM shirt is currently on sale for $20 pershirt. Shipping is free for domestic orders. The available sizes(while supplies last) are M, L, XL, and 3X. The sale ends on 05March 2012.

The LPDOC is always in need of office supplies to carry out ourmission-multipurpose paper (standard and legal-sized), postage,envelopes (all sizes), toner for the fax machine, etc. If you'reinterested in donating materials and/or equipment, send an e-mailto contact@whoisleonardpeltier.info.

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Background: Native American activist Leonard Peltier was wrongfullyconvicted in connection with the deaths of two agents of the FederalBureau of Investigation (FBI). Despite the courts' acknowledgmentof FBI and prosecutorial misconduct in the case, Peltier has beenimprisoned since 1976, currently at the U.S. Penitentiary at Coleman,Florida.

The evidence shows that the FBI was the aggressor in the firefightthat occurred on June 26, 1975. From 1973 to 1976, IndigenousPeople on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota werevictims of beatings, drive-by shootings, and stabbings carried outby local vigilantes who collaborated with the FBI. Peltier andother Indigenous activists were forced into a defensive postureto protect not only their lives, but the lives of others whowere present-elders, women, and children. Indeed, Mr. Peltier'sco-defendants, tried separately, were acquitted on grounds ofself-defense.

The evidence also clearly shows that the U.S. government's goalwas to orchestrate Mr. Peltier's conviction by any means-includingfalsifying extradition documents and intentionally committing fraudon a Canadian court, as well as suppressing evidence of Mr. Peltier'sinnocence during his trial. By the government's own admission,the critical part of the prosecution's case against Mr. Peltierwas the ballistics testimony which, years after his conviction,was discovered to be false.

You can help to free an innocent man. Learn more about the Peltiercase at www.whoisleonardpeltier.info.

Break the Chains.info

is a news and discussion forum for supporters of political prisoners, prisoners of war, politicized social prisoners, and victims of police and state intimidation.

This blog is organized and updated autonomously of the disbanded Break the Chains Prisoner Support Network formerly based in Eugene, Oregon. While this online project shares several of the same concerns as the old Break the Chains collective, no formal organization exists behind the current web presence.

"I will never surrender my pride and dignity nor allow the system to 'cut my tongue' and I will always, without fear, speak out against these war crimes and crimes against humanity, no matter if I spend the rest of my life in a prison cage, and draw my last breath of air laying down in this steel bed surrounded by razor-wire fences and cages, and its prison policies that are designed to destroy one's humanity…."